I am a retired CPA who has become increasingly interested in family history, especially as the prior generation leaves this world for their life's reward. My master's degrees in Taxation and Finance served me through a material, accumulation, phase of my life but I am increasingly drawn to my earlier college education in Philosophy and to the various immaterial wonders of human life. I hope to leave my wife and children with more than just some papers and an old CPA briefcase with my initials on it.